Sound Tracks

[Arnwyn]

It ocurred to me the other day the solution might be to put all my music on my computer, and make up custom playlists by theme or mood. IE: Tense music, Chase music, battle music, etc..

So I was wondering has anyone else has tried this, and how did it work out?

Yes. All my music is loaded on my music server/HTPC, and with the number of ID3 tags you can use you can sort it in a large number of ways. Further, creating playlists for different themes/moods is a snap (though time consuming at first during initial set-up). For example, we have (not an exhaustive list, BTW):
- town music
- city music
- battle music
- boss battle music
- epic/army battle music
- chase music
- scary/horror theme
- sad music
- tense music
- festival music
- seafaring music
- cultural music (desert, medieval, barbarian, celtic, etc)
among others.

For us, it works freakin' awesome.

 

[francisca]

I run my laptop through the stereo, but I don't situation specific music. Just soundtracks like Conan, LotR, Dragonslayer, and the tracks from Warcraft 1 and 2.

 

[kyloss]

I had an idea on this a while back that I am still working on. There was a game on PS2 for transformers and on the options menu was the standard sountrack option except it worked by themes, and then you could very the intensity which would add another layer to the music. I've been looking fore something to do this on the computer- it would be great for game sessions. otherwise any ambitious programers out there.